Bloojay

I will be back at my computer tomorrow and will be able to update the boards then

how goes it?

@KasperVld it's still boned for me

@Vanamonde lucky

@KSPNewbie Yeah you're good, just uh, keep your resources tab open next time

im not currently at my computer so updating the leaderboards is a major pain

@foamyesque sorry i'm late, i'll add it to the boards

@Dfthu the link i used was this: http://imgur.com/beta/disable it stopped working @Vanamonde that's exactly what happened to me

No pushing only for manne non-recoverable (because just the kerbal needs to reach space)

knock yourself out

woops

@foamyesque if you where going for manned and recoverable you missed the recoverable portion I also ask that you submit it in Album form instead of inline so the submission isn't a mile long @Aetharan *GRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr* @herbal space program tis cute indeed updating the boards now

Hi all for a challenge thread of mine, Lightest craft to Orbit, one of the challenges is to create the lightest manned orbiter that is recoverable, so for my own submission I created this, and I thought I would share it with the spacecraft exchange. The Pram 5: It weighs in at a feather-weight of 2.821 Tonnes, can reach a ~71k orbit with 300 D/v left over for maneuvering, rendezvousing, and de-orbiting, carries a Single Kerbal, and can survive a shallow re-entry with the right piloting. There is a bit of room to shave off excess fuel in the first stage, the challenge was purely based on weight so it could be made a lot cheaper at the cost of a few hundred kilos, and its use is probably purely as a single crew-member delivery orbiter making not all that useful

BAh, who needs protection from flash ignited air? Not Valentina!

ALRIGHT TIME FOR MY OWN ENTRY, thankfully I'm not too late to grab 1st place this time Here it is, the Pram 5 it weighs a mere 2.821t, can reach orbit with 300d/v left over, and requires a very shallow re-entry the body lift from the Oscar-Bs grant a superizing glide slope and impressive control when re-entering and landing Uploading the damn screenshots took longer than making and flying the thing a larger album can be found Here it just contains the extra screenshots @Aetharan Well you had it for literally the 3 seconds before I pressed Submit but good job non the less

@herbal space program WOOPS TYPO, im NOT counting those thanks keyboard

@Aetharan Correct Edit: I'm also not counting disposable pods used to put kerbals in command seats, or launch clamps Nother Edit: The launch clamps also can't raise your craft more than a few meters above the ground

@swjr-swis STOP MAKING ME HAVE TO REDESIGN *grumble grumble*, nice work, ya broke 4 tons(tonnes?) before anyone else and stole first place from Aetharan @Aetharan I'll update your entry on the boards

@Aetharan Nice! You've acquired 1st place, nice album!

@Crocket nice work, you where 1st on the leaderboards for like 30 seconds then got bumped down to 2nd where your craft now stands @swjr-swis way to raise the bar, 4.5t will be a tough wieght to beat! you stand in 1st place, for now *cracks knuckles* time to Turbopump this up a notch.

@Astrofox I made that in an hour last night too

@Astrofox I'm not sure what the forum etiquette is for out-kerbaling someone so... Ploop: Sorry... God I'm a terrible person...

I may have landed one of my model Saturn V test launch stages on the VAB. His name is the Sarvin XVI (Sarvin16) I'm developing it for a challenge I got from EJ_SA to build an ssto that can deliver a full orange tank to a 100K orbit then land on top of the VAB. My prior design was a traditional SSTO spaceplane that I wasn't quite feeling, then one of my friends mentioned as a joke "you should land a Saturn V on the VAB" and I took that as another challange. Its powered by 4 Rhinos and 12 Vectors, giving it the number 16, and Its named after Gas Planets 2s name in the Kerbol Orgins mod: Sarvin. It is a fully capable SSTO at the moment and can haul a full orange tank to a 100K orbit, and safely return, but its a bit of a challenge to put the thing down in itself, so I'm tweaking some things to make it more reliable I did have to enable indestructible facilities to get this to work, even may prior spaceplane design needed it to land without collapsing the VAB, my thinking is that any VTOL capable SSTO that can haul a full orange tank to orbit is inherently too heavy for the VAB. This design also isn't 100% to scale with the real Saturn V, the diameter is much smaller, with the wingtips representing the true diameter of a real Saturn Vs launch stage, I'd guess its about 60% scale and its only a single stage.

@herbal space program Nice! I will count the weight without the pod and clamp as I am only interested in the weight of the craft itself. Your craft, which I am Naming the "U-Light MKPO mk1" because "MKPO" lacks personality, has snagged 1st place on the Manned Recoverable leader-boards

@Foxster Yeah I got that I was commenting on the quality of the execution